NO - #RespectWomen - Paris Edition

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Her silence is not absence — it is the echo of truths the world still refuses to hear

 

This painting confronts the invisible tyranny of entitlement — political, economic, and social — that dares to trespass the most sacred human boundary: consent. It is a visual outcry against the violation of dignity, where power disguises itself as privilege, and silence becomes society’s chosen refuge.

 

The canvas burns with grief — the smoldering of inner peace, the collapse of trust, the charring of relationships. In the aftermath, anger and despair simmer beneath the surface, while the world moves indifferently forward. Faith becomes both refuge and question — we turn to it for solace, for justice, for divine reckoning, yet even the heavens seem slow to answer.

 

Recovery is not rebirth; it is the slow gathering of fragments — courage stitched together by time, by the fragile hands of family and friends. Life resumes, but never as before. The colors shift, the rhythm changes — yet beneath the surface, the wound breathes still.

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In a world where over 370 million women and girls have endured sexual violence before the age of eighteen — where one in five women in the United States is a victim of rape, and marital rape remains uncriminalized in India — the painting becomes testimony.

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This work is not just about what was taken; it is about the unyielding strength that survives. It asks — when the world commands silence, who dares to speak?

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#RespectWomen – NO (Paris edition)

Indranil Ghosh

Acrylic on Canvas – Tapestry

77cm X 123 cm

30” X 48”